Jira-markup-mode provides a major mode for editing JIRA wiki markup files. Unlike jira.el it does not interact with JIRA. The code is based on markdown-mode.el, a major for mode for editing markdown files. https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Confluence+Wiki+Markup ; Dependencies: jira-markup-mode requires easymenu, a standard package since GNU Emacs 19 and XEmacs 19, which provides a uniform interface for creating menus in GNU Emacs and XEmacs. ; Installation: Make sure to place `jira-markup-mode.el` somewhere in the load-path and add the following lines to your `.emacs` file to associate jira-markup-mode with `.text` files: (autoload 'jira-markup-mode "jira-markup-mode" "Major mode for editing JIRA markup files" t) (setq auto-mode-alist (cons '("\\.text" . jira-markup-mode) auto-mode-alist)) ; Acknowledgments: Jira-markup-mode has benefited greatly from the efforts of the developers of markdown-mode. Markdown-mode was developed and is maintained by Jason R. Blevins . For details please refer to http://jblevins.org/projects/markdown-mode/